The Sarcastic Guide to Electronic Music

The Sarcastic Guide to Electronic Music

14 February, 2008 | 7.22PM

• Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
• Written by: GirlSonic

I can’t tell you how long I have been searching for an audio-encyclopedia of electronica genres. 

Imagine Wikipedia with terms linked not just to related pages but also to audiofiles.  That would be bitchin’!

Maybe the result would work something like this interactive guide at Techno.org, created by Ishkur.

Ishkur (Kenneth John Taylor according to ... Wikipedia!) has assembled an impressive library of audio-definitions to go with his detailed commentary on each subgenre/sub-subgenre/micro-nanogenre, and so on.  I imagine that some of his smart-ass opinions have raised eyebrows, but damn, he’s funny.

For example, of Acid Breaks, Ishkur says “This and Chemical Breaks (and Big Beat, I guess) are the most favourite genres of action movie trailers, sports hilight reels, corporate powerpoint presentations and spastic TV ads featuring people doing something extreme like driving really fast while bird watching”.

Snortle.

Go ahead, start link-listening ... you know you want to.  Let’s get a heated argument going!

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